Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-26
DAKOTA IN WINTER.
THE HOUSES KEPT TOO WARM
DURING The COOL SEASON.
J ohm II. BeadIe Tells = Number Of the
Characteristics of the Country and It's
The New Claim Method.

ing complaint WIS tNat tnt houses were tpO
cold. In south Georgia and Florida never
could keep warm indoors in cold weather
Unless went to bed. but | could go out and
walk myself warm any ordinary winter day.
q re well built house has double
windows, and the stove takes up
as much room as piano else
where; and in it the blaze dieth
not and the fire il not quenched day or night
especially il it il hay burner. The con
sequence is one has to he careful Of his wraps
in going out doors; and only wonder thst
coughs and colds are 50 rare. II one should
go from Cuba to Canada in December, as fast
As a lightning train could take him, the doc
tors would call him a lunatic; yet we do
worse than that many times a day. By steam
coils and base burners we create an artificial
climate over the whole house. then we go at
one step from Cuba to Canada, from 20 degs.
above to 10 degs. below outdoors Good
clothing protects the body, but what OF the
delicate lining Of the nose and lungsl All i
can say is that hive not had the sign Of a
cold since entered the territory and there
is less catarrh than in any eastern section I
have visited. | used to think it was th'
thing to send invalids south in winter; ar
now satisfied that the average results are NJ
for the better, and perhaps, in the cruel kird
hess Of nature, 1t is necessary to kill off thI
weak and strengthen the strong. By and by,
perhaps, civilization will reach point where
all weaklings will voluntarily give up and
die for the benefit Of the race; but | have per
sonal reasons for being glad that il will not
be so in my time
Despite the cold, immigrants are pouring
into this country as If it were a section II
Eden. The record Of the Huron land office is
amazing In the four years since it was
established there hav We been located and filed
on Is, Isl pre- emptions, II ,9l4 homestealis and
s.31s tree claims, total of S', As quarter Sc
tions and nearly as many families, besides the
rapidly growing towns. For three months
the Chicago and Northwestern road brought
six coaches full of immigrants daily, besides
a much larger number who came on freight
trains with their household stuff. II Is
claimed that i'll one season that road brought
here 50 600 immigrants and prospectors. For
one wear two land offices Of Dakota did more
business than all those in the other territories
and all the far west states except Kansas and
Nebraska. 1t was the great invasion Of cen
trai Dakota-a rush" not equa ed probably
in the most exciting days Of California or
Pixies Peak. For while vast tracts were
taken as fast as they could be surveyed; and
lhen whole townships were occupied by
sQuatters in advance Of the survey. they de-
Gliding disputed claims by lot and agreeing to
stand by each other for legal location. One
township fifty miles away was taken in
body by IA squatters, one for each quarter
section: and when the survey was completed
they marched in as a battalion and filed. 1t
IL scarcely necessary to add that no later
comerS interfered with them.
Beadle county, of which Huron is the cap
tai. is seven townships long and five wide,
thus containing l,2f' square miles; so the
innd settled in this one district in four years
Is equivalent to seven counties like this, or
about eighteen Of the average in Indiana
From here TO the Missouri river all the good
land at all convenient TO the railroad is taken
but northwest there is much fine land vet
vacant, especially in Faulk county. A
branch railroad from Redfield, on the
Chicago and Northwestern roni. is going
through that county early in the
spring or course, every intending i'm
migrant knows all about the pre-emption and
homestead laws. but the true claim method
is not so well known. To get 100 acres by
pre- emption costs s212 in payment and fee; ;
10 Se' n"ihesorhi' II flo III lees
" Ge' uue cIaiin the same as
hofnes'ea"' WIN longer ume ana
more WORN put man mas small fortune
~heh ne setS H. i"u must HIST HE as Tor
homestead ana oreak hFe acres oi 500 the 1rst
year. Inc second year cultivate tha' nVe
acres anu oreak ai'o'ner, 'he 1hiru year
pant inc i'rs' n'e III ti'i'off' cunNate the
second h'e ana preak a tniru' ana the iourth
year piah' Tue Sco''h n'e' .heh you nave
Iiied 'ne feiuiei''eils vi 'he ia"' lou can
piant either .'s se@us Ut cut'ihss' ana must
pow aii'ohe ohe young "e,S enough 10 keep
weeds ana srass uo"h t'ii the trees get large
ehoeSh l" sla'ie 'he srounu lou can make
maj PROOF anu get oncie sans warranty
deed al the ena OF eisht years OF any time
before tne emu Oh fourteen years ana until
You DO, your iahd Is exempt from all taxes!
lhis Item alone VIII more than repay the cost
OF piantihS' anu ten acres OF t1ihner Is as lit
Tie as a man shouid plant ANYHOW,
even II ne 'aKes hones'ead or pre-emptlon.
NY hrst impression was that tiiis country
was mono'"nousiy ievei' put that Is all IN TIE
eye AS n matter OF TACT, the James river
runs IN trough iro'n hear hiiihe "akau 10
termIlon on the Mis'ourl; ana though the
SIDES oi 'he trough rise very grahuaiiy' they
rise hish' foT instance thlS city only l,-N
ieet eoove ude, or oe' feet ABOVE Chicago;
Dat Westward 'he country rises "po ieet In
SIXTY miles ana eastward out little less
lhe SUNNY OF the divide east OF mere Is 80
ieet higher than this' whiie the water level OF
the Missouri al fierre' Is l'v feet higher
than the town plot OF huron. VI course the
Missouri has TO get down hill very rapidly to
make the descent IRON there 10 Nermllion,
where the james Joins it; vet the James has
A fall of but one foot in five miles Of its
.o,rs. Y, NTH. ba mazda . co,.I tbro,,h
;.|Lo, - ;, :, - -. N,;. 20"
ingly crooked lts crooks are all within
narro" rahge' however cohilhed 10 the I'M
mediate valley anu between THAT AID the mt